I didn't know that I believed in a God but having just been at the scene of the accident on 15th Avenue NW I am praying to anyone who listen that the driver of the car that was hit from behind will survive. I wish that I had not seen what I had seen. Even though I wrote a book about Maria Federici's accident and the heroic efforts of Medic One it didn't seem real to me until tonight. How they must have had to work to keep her heart beating.
A car, evidently the one with a child in it, was hit by another car and the force pushed it underneath a three-quarter ton pick-up truck. The truck lifted above the hood. The car is squashed in the rear. The driver had to be cut out by the Seattle Fire Department. Even before they were on the scene neighbors ran out with fire extinguishers because of flames beneath the middle car.
Remember the scene in "It's A Wonderful Life" where George's wife Mary says to the son, "Yes, Timmy, pray very hard."
Pray very hard right now, whatever prayer means. Please try to send a miracle to the medics so that Thursday, October 21st is not the date of a fatality on 15th NW. Please don't let a child lose a parent. Please do whatever it takes to keep funding for the Fire Department and Medic One. Let Harborview keep blazing a path in saving lives by working with Medic One and Airlift Northwest.
Drive as though the life that could be lost by not paying attention, could be your own.